December 2007
47 posts
Design bookmarklet →
A handy bookmarklet (that loads an external JS) that provides a suite of design tools including rulers, guides, cross hairs, etc.
French Wooden Alphabet Blocks →
Complete with letters, numbers and animal pictures - $35.
IEBlog : Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A... →
A major step. Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of IE, said “While blog posts and links to videos are a good start, publicly available code is even better. We will have a lot more information available at sessions at MIX08 and will release a beta of IE8 in the first half of calendar 2008.”
Mr T's Thread - The Planet →
“Children are afraid of the dark. Dark is afraid of Mr. T.”
Trailer for The Dark Knight →
See also the official site and IMDB.
iPod Notes (iPod eBooks Creator) →
Convert books (or text files) to notes on iPod by slitting them into individual, linked 4kb files.
Iconfinder →
Icon search engine that includes license information.
Overland Truck for Sale →
This would be great to take to Niger and beyond.
Hear Voices? It May Be an Ad →
A new billboard in Manhattan uses an “audio spotlight” to beam sound into the heads of passers-by.
“Microsoft is like the little boy who cried wolf — long after everyone has...”
– John Gruber - December 2007
Diana Walker: The Bigger Picture Gallery (December... →
Photo of Steve Jobs at home in 1982 — “This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.” — Steve Jobs
Opera files complaint — an open letter to the Web... →
I was expecting the subject to concern Ogg support in HTML5; instead, it’s about Internet Explorer’s lack of standards support.
Al Gore - Nobel Lecture →
Al Gore’s Nobel Lecture delivered in Oslo, 10 December 2007.
90° spy right-angle adapter for SLR cameras →
A lens-adapter with a hole in the side and a mirror that lets you photograph subjects while your camera is seemingly pointed 90 degrees away from them.
iconlet.com →
Search engine for “free” images (including license information).
And I, for one, welcome our new spider overlords. →
Follow the link to watch the video clip from NASA TV.
Led Zeppelin Finds Its Old Power - New York Times →
Do websites need to look exactly the same in every... →
A persuasive argument.
TSP Solver for Google Maps →
Enter multiple addresses and get a list of the quickest route between all of them, with directions. (TSP = the Traveling Salesman Problem)
InfoQ: A Brief Introduction to REST →
“REST is a set of principles that define how Web standards, such as HTTP and URIs, are supposed to be used.”
Jash: JavaScript Shell →
A Cross-Browser Javascript Command-Line Debugging Tool with many nice features including auto-complete for ID values. Whlie it is not a replacement for Firebug, “it is ideal for use as a quick-and-dirty JavaScript or CSS debugging tool” and it works in I
Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Web Inspector... →
Offering inline CSS editing as well as support for new features in WebKit such as support for downloadable fonts and local storage.
Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code →
The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts.
“I’ll have to ask Dean what the hell is going on.”
– Bill Gates - in conversation with Molly Holzschlag about IE8 and Microsoft Transparency
molly.com » Conversation with Bill Gates about IE8... →
“Concerned about a lack of forthcoming information to the designer and developer community regarding IE8 and Web standards, I asked Bill if he could, in the spirit of a more open Microsoft, find out what was going on.”
“What your silence for the last 18 months of IE 8 development tells the Web...”
– Asa Dotzler, referring to the recent IE Blog post by Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of IE, about the upcoming IE 8
Web Development Helper →
Nikhil Kothari developed “an Internet Explorer plugin that provides a set of useful tools to both Ajax/JavaScript developers as well as ASP.NET page and control developers.”
Edit your photos! On Flickr! « Flickr Blog →
They’ve partnered with Picnik to offer browser-based photo editing, including red-eye correction. Works seamlessly, too!
rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs →
With YouTube video links, yo.
CSS Reference →
Launching next month, this CSS reference should be excellent. Even better is that it will be joined by HTML and JavaScript reference sites (“coming soon”).
“So that’s why you’re seeing two browser updates in one week. It was...”
– John Resig - Why Firefox 2.0.0.11 Happened So Fast
SitePoint Blogs » Firefox Rendering Bug Fixed in... →
“Mozilla developers mobilized quickly, and were able to produce a fixed version of the browser just 16 hours after the original bug report. The release team then took over to push Firefox 2.0.0.11 out the door in record time. ‘It’ll be the fastest turnaround between Firefox releases to date,’ wrote Firefox developer Nick Thomas ahead of the new version.” And it was.
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3 Beta 1 →
Packaged as a portable application so no need to install just to play around.